other half

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Noun

other half (plural other halves)

  1. (idiomatic) A spouse or a significant other.
    Near-synonyms: better half (positive valence), ball and chain (negative valence)
    It depends on what my other half says.
    • 1972, Lou Reed, “Goodnight Ladies”, in Transformer:
      Oh, I'm still missing my other half / Oh, it must be something I did in the past
  2. (idiomatic) The wealthy; the very wealthy.
    Antonym: 99 percent
    Coordinate term: one-percenters
    how the other half lives
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see other,‎ half.

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